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Twitter may soon allow posting images, videos in one tweet
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Twitter may soon allow posting images, videos in one tweet

San Francisco, July 30: Twitter has confirmed that it is testing a new feature that will allow users to post images, videos and GIFs in one multimedia tweet. The company confirmed the test and said it is available to some users for a limited time, adding that accounts can add tags to both photos...
Musk tells followers to slam WSJ for linking him with Google Co-founders wife
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Musk tells followers to slam WSJ for linking him with Google Co-founder's wife

San Francisco, July 25: Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Monday hit out at the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) for linking him with Google Co-founder Sergey Brin's wife Nicole Shanahan, asking his more than 102 million social media followers to slam the publication for going ahead with a false story. A Wall...
NASA finds asteroid Bennu aged early by Sun
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NASA finds asteroid Bennu 'aged early' by Sun

Washington, July 24: Scientists from NASA's OSIRIS-REx have found that the Sun's heat fractures rocks on Bennu in just 10,000 to 100,000 years, revealing that surface regeneration happens a lot quicker on asteroids than on Earth. For the findings, the team analysed rock fractures on asteroid...
Twitter can also be made liable for fraudulent disclosure on bots, thinks Musk
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Twitter can also be made liable for fraudulent disclosure on bots, thinks Musk

New Delhi, July 20: If Tesla CEO Elon Musk's legal team can prove that Twitter has misled its users from revealing the actual number of bots or spam accounts on its platform, than the Parag Agrawal-led company can be held liable for fraudulent disclosure in its filing with the US Securities and...
Webbs astronomical trove: Cosmic cliffs, birthplace of stars, dying stars
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Webb's astronomical trove: Cosmic cliffs, birthplace of stars, dying stars

Washington, July 13: The powerful next-generation James Webb Space Telescope has released a treasure trove of full-colour images from deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date to cosmic cliffs, birthplace of stars, blackhole, dying star's final "performance", as well as the...
ISRO taking steps to protect India
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ISRO taking steps to protect India's space assets

Chennai, July 12: The Indian space agency is taking necessary measures to protect the country's space assets from intentional and accidental close approaches by other space objects, said Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Dr. Jitendra Singh. He also said around 60 startups have...
Musk says hes terminating $44 bn Twitter deal: Report
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Musk says he's terminating $44 bn Twitter deal: Report

San Francisco, July 9: Tech billionaire Elon Musk is officially trying to pull out of his $44 billion agreement to purchase microblogging site Twitter. In a filing on Friday afternoon with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Musk's team claimed he is terminating the deal because...
NASA slams Russian cosmonauts for anti-Ukraine propaganda in space
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NASA slams Russian cosmonauts for anti-Ukraine propaganda in space

Washington, July 8: NASA in a rare statement slammed Russian cosmonauts onboard the International Space Station for celebrating the capture of a region of eastern Ukraine, while in space. In a statement, NASA said it "strongly rebukes using the International Space Station for political purposes...
Humanity to reach Mars in your lifetime: Elon Musk
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Humanity to reach Mars in your lifetime: Elon Musk

San Francisco, July 7: Tech billionaire Elon Musk is optimistic and has expressed confidence that "humanity will reach Mars in your lifetime". On Twitter, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO wrote that "without a common goal, humanity will fight itself". "Moon brought us together in a69, Mars can do that...
New method causes plastics to break down under UV light
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New method causes plastics to break down under UV light

London, Jul 5: Researchers in the UK have developed a novel method to break down plastics using just ultraviolet (UV) light. The researchers at the University of Bath discovered that adding sugar units to polymers increases their degradability when exposed to UV radiation. UV radiation has a...
Digantara launches world
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Digantara launches world's smallest digital space weather instrument

New Delhi, July 4: Spacetech startup Digantara on Monday launched the world's first commercial space-based weather system ROBI (ROBust Integrating proton fluence metre) on the Indian Space Research Organisations' PSLV - C53 Mission. It is India's one of the first commercial payloads that will...
India, Mexico ink pact on capacity building in Space
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India, Mexico ink pact on capacity building in Space

Mexico city, June 30: India and Mexico have signed an agreement for capacity building in Space here. The pact was signed during the sixth round of Foreign Office Consultations held between India and Mexico here. According to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA): "A Specific Cooperation...
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